Amy Beth
@sissonab.bsky.social
Poet. Associate Artist ISGRJ. Editorial Assistant FENCE Magazine.
Thank you, @lambdaliterary.org , for bringing me into the spotlight. Even though I feel more comfortable in the light of a soft flickery candle, I am grateful.
@planthumanq.bsky.social fits my poetic obsessions. So glad to have my poem "Zoochory" here
Plant-Human Quarterly@planthumanq.bsky.social · 11mo agoHappy Equinox!🌙🍁 From falling leaves to elegies, skunk cabbage to trout lilies - our new issue is here: otherwisecollective.com/current-issue Artwork by Candela Murillo (@kamusa_art)
Thank you to the Mendelssohn Chorus and ArtPhilly for the opportunity to be part of this collaboration. It is wonderful to work with the brilliant composer Leigha Amick and my amazing and generous mentor Steven Kleinman.
It’s Pub Day! I HOPE THIS HELPS is officially in the world. Born in rupture. Shaped in breath. Carried by love, survival, and the magic of our lives. This book understands heartbreak and turns it into balm, blade, blessing. May it find you when you need it most. #IHopeThisHelps #PoetryIsMedicine
Samiya Bashir's book "I Hope This Helps" is layered and gorgeous. Thank you @scryptkeeper.substack.com
My interview with my brilliant teacher @paullisicky.bsky.social is live today! Thank you, @dintywmoore.bsky.social for bringing it into the world.
Brevity / Dinty W. Moore@dintywmoore.bsky.social · last yr.Paul Lisicky discusses his newest book, Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell--part Joni Mitchell playlist, part fan letter, and part memoir. @paullisicky.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/i...
I'm reading at the upcoming April 2 edition of Mad Poets First Wednesday with Ann de Forest and LaVonne France! Wednesday, April 2 7:00 p.m. Community Arts Center 414 Plush Mill Rd. Wallingford, PA Plentiful parking; accessible entrance around to the right of the building. An open mic will follow
...corporations externalize trillions in costs to society and the planet. Nonprofits form to absorb those costs, but have at their disposal only a tiny portion of the profits that corporations were able to generate by externalizing those costs in the first place. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/o...
Opinion | The Impossible Math of Philanthropy (Gift Article)
There’s a reason so many seemingly well-funded causes fail to move the needle.
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The Valentine poetry sharing circle has been postponed until February 15th! thepac.center/events/poetr...
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Rutgers cancels HBCU event to align with Trump DEI orders
The Rutgers University Center for Minority Serving Institutions announced Thursday that it has canceled an upcoming virtual conference about registered apprenticeship programs as a result of President...
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thepac.center/events/poetr... I'd love to see you there!
Valentine Poetry Sharing Circle — Park Avenue Community Center
Delco Writers and Friends Valentine Poetry Sharing Circle featuring poet Darla Himeles. Share your poetry love. Bring a printed copy of a poem that you love to read or memorize one to recite.&...
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"I turned the gas down, I got into bed. I said some words to the close and holy darkness, and then I slept." gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/070...
A Child's Christmas in Wales, by Dylan Thomas, free ebooks, ebook, etext
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I memorized a poem by @dseuss.bsky.social recently. In my dream last night I was stumbling over a recitation. This morning someone sent me this: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Blue Stoop, an incredible philly lit mag, is nearing the end of their fundraising auction! lots of great items & services! plz take a look givebutter.com/c/bluestoop/...
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We constantly read writers whose words help us along. How often do we let them know this? @andreafirth.bsky.social decided she would. @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2024/11/27/a... #thanks #writingcommunity #creativewriting #authorlife
A Few Kind Words
By Andrea A. Firth Maniouloux, Jean-Luc. Impact 1. Deyrolle, Paris. On a recent trip to Paris, my husband and I spent a morning wandering through the rooms of the Deyrolle boutique. Often described…
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To see Hagedorn's book published with the orderly black spine and penguin logo is disorienting. In his introduction, Pat Rosal says, "To read Dogeaters, you've got to have a taste for danger. You've got to love listening to someone who has kissed the devil on the cheek and lived to tell the tale.”
Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social · 2y agoPatrick Rosal sings the praises of Jessica Hagedorn’s revolutionary Dogeaters: “I mean to say, the book is haunted. Phantasms inhabit every chapter.”